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Books on ballet tend to focus on performance. This book is about dancers; how their careers are made and unmade and what happens in dance companies offstage. The audience's perception of fairy-tale worlds onstage is far removed from the experience of the dancers themselves.
This absorbing book is ballet's 'biography' -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimacies, pressures and, not least of all, its magic. Ballet companies have endeavoured to hide what is going on backstage lest the reali…
